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Like Saddam Hussein, the rumor in Collingswood is that the Living Room’s open mic may or may not be dead. Not enough people have been spending money there on Wednesday nights. I’ve said a million times they should put up a freaking website and market the open mic more to songwriters. An ad in Origivation…

My gig on the 18th is not at the Living Room as I previously mentioned. It’s actually at the Daily Grind in Mt Holly, NJ. Sorry for any confusion.

Apparently, I’m huge in Russia. I don’t know what is more disturbing. That there is a type of boat called a “Ben Garvey” or that I found this out on a site called helloseaman.com. Googling your name is fun.

I did some directory shuffling tonight, so you’ll no longer see the annoying “pn_714/html” in my URLs and the splash page has been banished to data heaven. Good riddance! I had to fix a ton of hard URLs that I stupidly used, but the only ones left should be in old news stories (email me…

I feel guilty. After Peggy Miller’s set last night at the Grape Street Pub open mic I asked her how much her CDs were selling for. “$15,” she replied to my amazement. $15? For a local starving artist’s CD? Local bands should sell their CDs for $6 or LESS. Instead of explaining to her my…

The Rev. Roswell King, host of the Living Room open mic, has asked me to play during the break of his show on Friday, April 18th at the Living Room. This means I’ll probably play from about 10:00 – 10:15 PM. The show starts at 8:00PM with another local artist (not sure who yet) and…

My initial topic for this post was to name my top ten favorite albums. I wrote out the first 7 or so and realized my top choices wereToo famousToo similarReleased in a relatively short period of timeThat’s horrible for someone who claims to be musician. I listen to all sorts of stuff, but when it…

The rumors are true. Tonight was Chrissy’s last night behind the coffee counter at the Living Room open mic. She will definitely be missed. It was a strange night for me in Collingswood. I debuted a new song called “99%” about getting abducted by an alien booze cruise. Screwing it up was a possibility and…

What an odd coincidence there is a musician in the UK named Ben McGarvey. He plays the piano and his style sounds a little like Tori Amos if she were a guy and British. His website needs a little help, but he probably puts more time into his music than I do. What’s with the…

This site uses software called PostNuke to handle all the content and one thing that has always bugged me is that it allows users to set an avatar, but doesn’t use the avatars anywhere on the site. From now on, if you’re logged in and you post a comment the avatar will be shown next…

I almost gave up on nowayscoob’s website, which laid unloved for a few months while Justin frollicked around irresponsibly. It’s certainly not Kopie’s fault their website went updateless since January, because he had other duties. At least their reputation is somewhat redeemed by a long update and some good advice about attending Trocadero events:I figured…

So Adrien Reju’s band is now just called Reju. That’s a good move on Adrien’s part, because she’s bounced around a number of backing muscians since I’ve known her and these guys are clearly what she’s been looking for. They sound great together. She even rocked out with her Paul Reed Smith for a while…

I added some new pictures from Friday’s show to my image gallery. I also added a few pics of other local artists, including Jason Wheatley, Matt Winn, and Reju. Be sure to check out this really weird picture of Matt Winn and Jason Wheatley. The slow shutterspeed created some interesting lighting effects, especially on the…

I had a lot of fun at last night’s show. Jason rocks for having me open up for him and so does everyone for coming out (Sarah, Jeanne, Mark, Rich, Vinnie, Kevin, Joanne, and Adam). I’ll post some pictures of the show later on when I get a chance. I did a set of almost…

Be sure to come out on Friday to see Jason Wheatley and me at the Living Room at 8:00PM. Don’t worry, Jason’s not nearly as scary as I am. Also, you’ll definitely want to check out Adrien Reju on Saturday March 29 @ 8:30PM at 3 Beans Coffee in Haddonfield, NJ. I saw a great…

I just bought tickets to go see Dave Chappelle on April 11 at the Tower Theatre. I can’t wait. He was fantastic when I saw him a few years ago at AU (hmmm that may be the first link I’ve ever made to my alma mater).

Attention logged in users – You must check out my new Super News Feed when you get a chance. As before it updates itself every hour, but now you can filter out any sites you don’t want to see and you can even add your own favorite news feed. The downside is that you have…

I’ve been camera crazy lately and posted a few new pictures from Sunday’s hike through Wissahickon Park including the creepy Kelpius Cave picture you see to the right. I was actually brave enough to step inside the thing this time, but still haven’t executed my plan of jumping out of it wearing a wolfman mask.…

I’m proud to announce I’ll be opening up for Jason Wheatley at the Living Room in Collingswood, NJ on Friday, March 28th at 8:00PM. Jason has a great sound has been mentioned here numerous times. It should be a great show. If you need alcohol to have fun Jason is also playing TONIGHT at the…

Last night Adam and I headed out to the Grape Street Pub’s open mic, hosted by Tom Gillam and bartender Andrew Geigert. The lineup was an insane collection of talent including featured artist, Seth Horan (formerly of Vertical Horizon), mcgowan, Jeremy Hollis, Jason Wheatley (who has a gig there this Thursday night at 8:00PM!), and…